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Christmas Physics Quiz
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1
Which two elementary particles are described as "massless"?
Photon and Gluon
None of these options
Muon and neutrino
Electron and proton
2
"No two electrons in an atom can have an identical set of quantum numbers". Who said this?
Pauli
Einstein
Fermi
Newton
3
Name the Physicist
Maxwell
Faraday
Curie
Boltzmann
4
Name the Physicist
Dirac
Heisenberg
Feynman
Bohr
5
Name the Physicist
Curie
Leavitt
Rubin
Bell Burnell
6
An object is dropped into free fall. Through how many metres does the object fall during the first 3.00 seconds?
10m
90m
15m
45m
7
Which of the following is not a form of energy?
Friction
Light
Sound
Heat
8
"For small displacements from equilibrium there is a restoring force proportional to the displacement"
Kepler
Hooke
Lenz
Huygens
9
A light ray changes direction when it enters a new material. Which of the following best describes this phenomenon?
Interference
Doppler Effect
Polarisation
Refraction
10
Name the Physicist
Galileo
Kepler
Copernicus
Brahe
11
Planck's constant (h=E/f) is multiplied by the speed of light. This is divided by 3m. The final value has what units?
Units of Momentum
Units of Force
Units of Frequency
Units of Energy
12
Name the Physicist
Maxwell
Planck
Schrodinger
Heisenberg
13
The laws of physics tell us that energy is...
Constant
Conserved
Concerned
Contained
14
What's the difference between weight and mass?
Mass is metric, weight is imperial
No difference
Mass is the amount of matter, weight is the gravitational force
Mass is a measure of size, weight is a measure of desnity
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Name the Physicist
Kepler
Faraday
Galileo
Newton
16
Which of the following would increase the period of a pendulum?
Increasing the mass of the bob
Increasing the length of the string
Decreasing the length of the string
Increasing the mass of the bob
17
MRI is a commonly used acronym for a medical diagnostic technique. What does it stand for?
Multiaxis Radar Injection
Magnetic Radioisotope Injection
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Mdeical Radio Imaging
18
Which one of the following is not a scalar quantity?
Mass
Force
Pressure
Energy
19
Name the Physicist
Einstein
Einstein
Einstein
Einstein
20
If you map the universe from smallest scale (Planck length) to largest (observable universe), what's in the middle?
The Earth
The Solar System
Cells/molecules
Electrons
21
In 2013 the Nobel prize was awarded to who for discovery of a mechanism that explains the origin of mass
Stephen Hawking
Brian Greene
Edward Witten
Peter Higgs
22
Name the Physicist
Planck
Sagan
Hawking
Feynman
23
A cube of iron and another of aluminium (equal mass) are submerged in water. Which has the greater buoyant force?
The buoyant forces are equal
The mass of the cubes is needed to answer the question
Aluminium Cube
Iron Cube
24
The Black Hole at the centre of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*, is roughly how many times more massive than our Sun?
400,000 times
They're radically different sizes but the same mass
4000 times
4,000,000 times
25
Name the Physicist
Hubble
Rutherford
Dirac
Thomson
26
Name the Physicist
Faraday
Feynman
Oppenheimer
Maxwell
27
Which of these phenomena inspired Albert Einstein in his development of general relativity?
The vibration of strings on a violin
Seeing a man fall off a roof
Watching two trains move in opposite directions
Seeing an apple drop from tree
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On a cosmological scale, the concept of 'distance' is tricky to define. Why is that?
We don't have a long enough ruler to reach distant stars
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
Supermassive black holes are eating matter too quickly
The universe is expanding and the rate of expansion has changed over time
